pig gestation

Porca's seven piglets justified the pig farmer's maxim for porcine gestation:  'three months, three weeks, three days and three o'clock in the morning' -- it was just about three o'clock Tuesday morning that we pulled our sore bones out of the shower -- we'd been sitting in the pig pen since eleven -- and climbed into bed.  Seven piglets, with one casualty, stepped on before we got there.  Beautiful, vigorous spotted babies anxious for nourishment.